A Collection of Poems
Subtitle: Containing The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius. Owen of Carron. Deserted Village. Traveller. The Grave. The Hermit of Warkworth. Sir Eldred of the Bower and the Bleeding-Rock
By: By Beattie, Langhorne, Pope, Goldsmith, Blair, Percy, Moore, and Kenrick.
Contributors: Beattie, James, 1735-1803.; Langhorne, John, 1735-1779.; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.; Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728-1774.; Blair, Robert, 1699-1746.; Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811.; More, Hannah, 1745-1833.; Kenrick, William, ca. 1725-1779.; Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764.
Publisher: Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall
Published: 1779
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Notes: 'The first edition of 'A Collection of Poems' came out in 1748, and the publisher took great pains to obtain contributions from nearly every fashionable versifier of the day. It has been frequently reprinted and added to, and forms perhaps the most popular collection of the kind ever produced' [DNB].

Separate, sectional title-pages read, respectively: 'Owen of Carron. A Poem. By Dr. Langhorne. Inscribed to a Lady' (followed by an 'Advertisement' preceding the poem); 'The Deserted Village. A Poem. By Dr. Goldsmith'; 'The Traveller: Or, A Prospect of Society. A Poem. By Dr. Goldsmith; 'The Grave, A Poem. By Robert Blair ... ; 'Sir Eldred of the Bower, and the Bleeding Rock: Two Legendary Tales. By Miss Hannah More ... ' (preceded by a letter 'To David Garrick, Esq., signed Hannah More. Bristol, Dec. 14.1775').

ESTC3191C23 [under title].